September 20, 2017

CHIC – Cooperative Holistic View on Internet and Content

PROJECT TITLE

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The CHIC – Cooperative Holistic View on Internet and content project was submitted, evaluated and approved for financing under the call “Mobilizers programs “ supported by Portugal 2020 funds. With a total approved budget of nearly 10 M€, CHIC was submitted by a consortium of 24 entities headed by MOG Technologies, S.A. The consortium incorporates different entities, from SME to medium/large companies passing throw institutions from the Portuguese Scientific and Technological System.
The CHIC – project, aims to develop, test and demonstrate a wide range of new processes, products and services that have a significant impact on the audiovisual and multimedia sectors. These products by their nature will have a clear mobilizing effect on other important sectors of culture such as the cultural heritage, archives, books and publications or the performing arts.
DigiMedia team will be involved with major responsibilities in the pilot dealing with NLI – Natural Language Interaction for online navigation and cable distribution systems. DigiMedia team main responsabilities will be on the technological mapping of NLI tecnologies, training and modelling, development and implementation of the technical solution, trial run and optimization in heterogeneous conditions, pilot deployment, pilot evaluation and dissemination actions.

DATES

October 2017 – October 2020

TOTAL FUNDING

9.921.622.20 €

DigiMedia FUNDING

367.400 €

FUNDING SOURCE

National Public – FEDER/Compete 2020/Portugal 2020/Lisboa 2020

REFERENCE

Mobilizador – 24498 [1]

MAIN DIGIMEDIA R&D GROUP

Social iTV

DIGIMEDIA COORDINATOR

Jorge Ferraz de Abreu

DIGIMEDIA TEAM

Alexandre Ulisses (Team MOG – Project coordinator); Pedro Almeida; Telmo Silva, Pedro Beça; Rita Santos

PARTNERS

Companies that produce technology: MOG technologies S.A, Enigma Virtual (Gema), Cluster Media Labs, YouON, VMuse, Altice Labs, SISTRADE;
Entities SCTN: INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto FEUP, FBAUP, FLUP, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ISEP), Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Universidade Aberta, Centro de Computação Gráfica, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Universidade de Aveiro e Universidade Católica;
Advanced users : Global Notícias, Publicações S.A. (Jornal de Notícias), Altice Labs, Avenida dos Aliados – Sociedade de Comunicação S.A. (Porto Canal), Tipografia Tadinense, Ideias e Conteudos, OSTV (Canal 180), Cinemateca Portuguesa, GMK

PROJECT URL

Available at: [2]

CO-FINANCED BY

July 14, 2017

POTI – Personal Objects as Tangible Interfaces

PROJECT TITLE

POTI – Personal Objects as Tangible Interfaces

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Personal Objects as Tangible Interfaces (POTI) is a technology that aims to convert everyday objects and actions into interfaces in the digital world.

At the heart of POTI technology are small electronic tags consisting of motion, sound and light sensors that, when integrated into everyday objects, are capable of recognizing the gestures the user engages in interacting with them on a daily basis. The user from a simple smartphone application can configure labels, via WIFI.

The objective of this project is to develop and evaluate a MVP (Minimum Valuable Product) consisting of two electronic tags and an application, mobile in which the user personalizes the use scenario.

DATES

March 2017 – March 2018

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant: Private – Altice Labs

Funding Value: 20000€

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

NMDE

RESEARCH TEAM

Mário Vairinhos (IR), Óscar Mealha (Co-IR), José Nunes e Patrícia Oliveira

PARTNERS

July 14, 2017

UNLOVE/UNPOP

PROJECT TITLE

UNLOVE/UNPOP

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The main objective of this project is to develop a digital game aiming the prevention and awareness of dating violence, exploring digital media potential in diverse fields, which calls for a collaborative effort, the project crosses different areas, namely: (i) game design, development and evaluation; (ii) e-health; (iii) and digital media impact in social, educational and cultural contexts.

More info about Unlove/Unpop available at: [1]

DATES

February 2017 – August 2018

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant : Public National – Secretaria de Estado da Igualdade

Funding Value: 20 500 € (Global funding); 2500 € (Digimedia)

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

KMCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Ana Margarida Almeida (Main Researcher – Digimedia)

PARTNERS

July 14, 2017

MOOC

PROJECT TITLE

Minorities as opportunity and occasion for chrysalis

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Project aimed to develop online and offline tools for intercultural education in multicultural professional environments. Trainings, seminar and job shadowings. The problem we see is related not only to migrants and intercultural-ethnic reality of Europe, but to the development of “fear of difference” and “refusal of difference” raising in different context in Europe. We want develop such a material with the characteristic of a Massive Open Online Course gathering together materials from different sources (video, books, training material) and to be made available for different kind of workers.

PROJECT WEBSITE

https://www.salto-youth.net/tools/otlas-partner-finding/project/mooc-minorities-as-opportunity-and-occasion-for-chrysalis.6640/

DATES

January 2017 – December 2018

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant: Public International – ERASMUS+ (KA2 – Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices Strategic Partnerships for youth

Funding Value: 210.000 €

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

MCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Massimiliano Greco (Project coordinator)

Vania Baldi (Main Researcher)

PARTNERS

July 14, 2017

VoluntAge4Seniors

PROJECT TITLE

Application for the elderly to ask for help from volunteers

SHORT DESCRIPTION

This project aims to develop a television application that allows older people, in a simple and quick way, to ask a group of volunteers for support in specific tasks such as small domestic repairs or accompany in a visit to the doctor. It is intended that the application, currently under development, allows that certain actions, such as making a request to a volunteer, can also be performed by voice.

DATES

January 2017 – September 2017

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant – Private – AlticeLabs@UA

Funding Value: 9724 €

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

KMCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Rita Santos (Project Coordinator) – Digimedia/ESTGA-UA

Ana Isabel Martins (Team Member ) – IEETA/DCM

Ciro Martins (Team Member ) – IEETA/ESTGA-UA

Hilma Caravau (Team Member ) – Associação Nacional de Gerontólogos

João Moura (Team Member) – DECA

Mário Rodrigues (Team Member) – IEETA/ ESTGA-UA

Pedro Miguel (Team Member) – DETI

Tânia Ribeiro (Team Member) – DECA

PARTNERS

July 14, 2017

Smart EnterCom

PROJECT TITLE

Integrated and Intelligent Corporate Communication Platforms

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The project aims to develop new product concepts (and their proofs of concept) that can induce a paradigm shift regarding the current practices of corporate ICT usage and their associated fragilities in terms of information management capabilities as well as traceable and structured communication activities.

This collaborative R&D project defines as its ultimate strategic objective the optimization of the human interaction and intuitive‐intelligent information management in the corporate contexts by the development of new info‐communicational tools that leverage the individual and collective performance of the organizations.

DATES

January 2017 – December 2019

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant – Public National – Portugal 2020 – COMPETE2020;

Project Code: n. º 21949 Smart EnterCom;

Funding Value: 832 268,06 € (Global funding); 60 033,11€ (Digimedia)

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

KMCC

RESEARCH TEAM

José Ferreira (Project Coordinator – Finesource/Wavecom)

Óscar Mealha (Main Researcher – Digimedia)

Carolina Félix Abrantes (Team Member)

PARTNERS

July 14, 2017

LEMA

PROJECT TITLE

Mathematics Learning Environment for Autistic

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The project aims at the development of a set of training activities with both families and health and educational professionals in order to empower theses groups to better understand the Autism Spectrum Disorders, namely in what concerns math skills and considering he role of digital media in its promotion.

DATES

September 2016 – July 2017

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant :Private National – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Funding Value: 9600 €

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

KMCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Ana Breda, Departamento Matemática, Universidade Aveiro (Project Coordinator)

Ana Margarida Almeida (Team Member)

PARTNERS

July 14, 2017

CeNTER-Community-led Networks for Territorial Innovation

PROJECT TITLE

CeNTER-Community-led Networks for Regional Innovation

SHORT DESCRIPTION

This project aims at identifying the policy tools, which best allow for the valorization of territorial resources in order to promote employment and quality of life in Centro Region. The main outcome of the project will be a proposal of a territorial innovation model led by community and powered by digital media, as well as an impact assessment framework that will foster the foundation of an Observatory for Human Capital and regional innovation performance in the University of Aveiro.

DATES

April 2017 – March 2021

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant: Public National: Portugal 2020 – PO-centro

Funding Value: 1.200.000€

DigiMedia funding: 300.000€

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

KMCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Fernando Ramos (DigiMedia Team leader and WP3 Coordinator)

Luís Pedro (Team Member)

Margarida Almeida (Team Member)

Maria João Antunes (Team Member)

July 14, 2017

Distance Education Quality Assurance Framework at the University Eduardo Mondlane

PROJECT TITLE

Distance Education Quality Assurance Framework at the University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The aim of this project is to provide technical support to the Distance Education Center of the University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique in the development of the Quality Assurance (QA) framework for Distance Education. The project includes the development of the conceptual aspects (QA indicators and standards) and of the QA procedures and instruments.

DATES

June 2016-December 2017

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant: Private: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Funding Value: 17.900€

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

KMCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Fernando Ramos (Project Coordinator)

PARTNERS

July 14, 2017

Money Museum

PROJECT TITLE

Money Museum

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The goal of the project was to specify multimedia solutions to be integrated in the Money Museum project, to validate its technical implementation and to analyze the impact of its interaction solutions in the visitors’ user experience.

PROJECT WEBSITE

http://www.museudodinheiro.pt/destaques

DATES

2016

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant : Private: Francisco Providência Design;

Funding Value: 6.000 €

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

NMDE

RESEARCH TEAM

Mário Vairinhos (Project coordinator);

Pedro Almeida (Main Researchers);

PARTNERS

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